Chapter 244: Hidden dangers and a surge in prestige
"Duh!"
Standing on the highest peak of Lingshan Island, Li Dingguo directed an extremely mysterious seal towards the center of the formation buried on the ground in front of him, activating this small Five Elements Sky-covering Formation.
"Buzz..."
As a five-colored rune emerged from the palm of his right hand and sank into the ground, rays of five-colored light rose from all directions on the ten-mile sea surface outside the entire huge Lingshan Island coastline!
Then a five-colored light shield was formed, flashing brilliantly over the entire Lingshan Island for a while, and then disappeared.
At this point, the super-large five-element basic formation, which had taken him half a month to set up, was successfully activated.
That is to say, he has now cultivated the skill of the Five Elements Basic Formation to perfection, which allowed him to successfully set up this super-large Five Elements Sky-Covering Formation.
Li Dingguo had reached the initial fifth level of martial arts cultivation, which gave him sufficient energy and spirit to support him in successfully setting up this super-large five-element basic formation.
This enlarged version of the Small Five Elements Sky-covering Array not only consumed a great deal of Li Dingguo's time and energy, but also consumed tens of thousands of magic cores ranging from level one to level five. It was arguably the largest consumption required to set up the array to date.
Li Dingguo had his reasons for having to take so much trouble to accomplish this great task.
Half a month ago, when Li Dingguo was riding a golden eagle on his way back to Lingshan Island from Lingshan City, he unexpectedly discovered traces of a group of long-tailed tiger-headed black sharks on the sea!
This is a group of top-grade sea beasts recorded in ancient books, on the same level as dragon-scale horses. They are brutal and aggressive, and once they reach adulthood, they can become a ferocious group of level four sea beasts.
He even felt the violent aura of more than a dozen level five long-tailed tiger-headed black sharks while high in the sky.
Two of the auras among them even reached the peak of level five sea beasts.
This large sea monster weighs hundreds of thousands of pounds, and its combat power far exceeds that of most monsters of the same level on land.
It's because they are too big and have the innate magical power of water. They can borrow the power of the sea in the sea, so that their physical strength can support long-term battles, and they will not be exhausted even if they fight for one or two months.
As for why the long-tailed tiger black shark group, which has always lived in the deep sea, suddenly came to this offshore area, Li Dingguo could not figure it out.
Once they launch an attack towards Lingshan Island, let alone other things, the dozens of treasure ships of various levels moored at the big pier will definitely be lost!
When they launched their fierce attack, they were able to create huge waves hundreds of feet high with ease.
Such destructive and violent waves could easily overturn and sink all the treasure ships parked in the harbor!
Even if you activate the protective magic circle on the treasure ship, it will be useless.
Unless the treasure ship can evade them in advance, use psychic cannons and psychic crossbow carts to engage in guerrilla warfare with them, and carry out long-range damage to these large sea beasts, it is possible to defeat or even kill them.
The problem is that the Restoration Army can’t even see the shadow of the Navy right now, so how can they have the ability to fight the enemy head-on?
In order to form a navy with initial combat capabilities, even for warriors, it would take at least half a year to train.
Some ancient books that Li Dingguo had read introduced that in this big world, a tide of monsters would occur every hundred years or so.
Especially when the sea beast tide broke out, the tremendous momentum was like destroying the world.
Ever since Li Dingguo was frightened after seeing the group of long-tailed tiger black sharks in Lingshan Bay, his most important job every day after returning to Lingshan Island was to ride a golden eagle around this big island and its surrounding waters to investigate the terrain of Lingshan Island and the surrounding shallow seas in detail, in order to figure out the direction of the land veins here as soon as possible.
In order to ensure the safety of Lingshan Port, it is necessary to use formations to cover the ten-mile shallow sea area around the large island.
Fortunately, with the help of the giant golden eagle, Li Dingguo was able to quickly complete this round of investigation. After understanding the direction of the land veins around the big island and Lingshan Island, he determined the formation nodes one by one.
Then he spent more than ten days to finally complete the layout of this enlarged version of the Small Five Elements Sky-Covering Array and successfully activated it.
Now that this super-large five-element basic formation has been successfully activated, the entire Lingshan Island looks no different from usual when viewed from the outside.
However, under the influence of several large-scale five-element spirit gathering arrays that had been set up on the island, countless spiritual energy from the four directions of the sea quietly gathered on this large island, causing the concentration of the spiritual energy in it to increase rapidly and continuously.
It is estimated that within ten days, the concentration of spiritual energy in Lingshan Island, which is completely covered and obscured by the formation, will increase by at least three to five times.
If the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this sea area is richer, it would be normal for the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on Lingshan Island to increase by more than ten times in the future.
At that time, not only were there many benefits for planting and cultivating various spiritual herbs and roots in the areas covered by the large Five Elements Spirit Gathering Arrays, but even in those large farm planning areas that were not covered by the Five Elements Spirit Gathering Arrays, there were great benefits for the growth of various ordinary crops.
"call……"
After completing this urgent and important task, Li Dingguo's tense mind over the past few days finally relaxed.
With this super-large formation protecting it, unless a powerful enemy is able to break the formation nodes formed by the earth veins, it will be impossible to break through the Lingshan Island base.
Moreover, this enlarged version of the Small Five Elements Heaven Covering Formation covers the ten-mile shallow sea area around the island. The harbor where the treasure ships are located no longer needs to worry about sudden attacks launched by the enemy, and the safety will be well guaranteed. He has decided to let the big golden eagle go back to the outside of the pass in a few days to bring the earth spirit bead buried in the base camp of the lake island and bury it again in the array eye of the Lingshan Island protection array.
Let it use the endless energy of the earth veins to slowly generate a spiritual vein to continuously charge the various nodes of the guardian array here.
In just a few years, this island base will become a good spiritual place, providing the guardian magic circle with endless and inexhaustible central energy.
There is no way around it. The oceans of this big world are so dangerous that we simply cannot survive without some preparations.
It’s not a big deal at normal times, but if a tide of sea beasts attacks, most of the islands will be unable to be defended.
It is recorded in some miscellaneous books that Li Dingguo has read: Before each sea monster tide arrives, ordinary people in coastal areas and islands will undergo a temporary large-scale migration.
If in recent years there really had been a tide of sea beasts that occurred once every few decades, it would have added fuel to the fire for the Ming Dynasty, which was already facing extremely serious internal and external troubles, making this round of chaos even more chaotic.
The scale of refugees in coastal areas at that time must have increased several times at least!
The number of ordinary people who have suffered misfortune as a result is at least in the tens of millions.
Thinking of this, Li Dingguo's eyes turned slightly cold, and a light flashed in his eyes for a while, as if he had made some decision.
The formation was successfully activated. Li Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief and flew to the back of the golden eagle that was watching curiously. He said to it, "The arrangement of the protective formation this time is complete!"
"Da Jin, let's go home!"
Given the huge size of Lingshan Island, the center of the formation where he was located was in the middle of the entire island, at least three hundred miles away from the fortress city on the edge of Lingshan Bay.
The highest peak of Lingshan Island under his feet was more than a thousand feet high, so the distance was even farther.
So Li Dingguo came here riding a golden eagle, and did the same on the way back.
Only with the help of the golden eagle could he quickly travel to all directions of this large island, complete the survey of the terrain in time, and thus successfully set up this super-large protective formation.
Otherwise, if Li Dingguo wanted to accomplish this great task alone, even if he could do it, it would take more than one or two years.
"Chirp..."
Feeling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this Lingshan Island, which was rapidly increasing, the golden eagle seemed very excited. It raised its head and neighed, then turned into a stream of light and soared into the sky.
In just a moment, it arrived above the huge fortress city on the edge of Lingshan Bay, and then landed in the front yard of the city lord's mansion.
The first phase of warrior training here ended a few days ago.
Of the two hundred carefully selected boys and girls, except for a few whose bones did not meet the standards and who were unable to activate their qi and blood, the remaining nearly two hundred boys and girls all successfully broke through and entered the initial stage of warriors.
Then they were immediately sent to various warrior selection and training sites, responsible for teaching all the people of this Restoration Army and conducting a comprehensive round of warrior selection and training.
In the past few days, the entire Lingshan City has been bustling with activity, and everyone is excited.
The commander-in-chief's promise began to be officially fulfilled. Everyone had the possibility of becoming a warrior. For the nearly 200,000 people here, it was simply pie in the sky, like a dream.
In the past, how could ordinary refugees like them have the opportunity to come into contact with martial arts?
Even if you have access to some knowledge of martial arts training and have the talent to get started, it is difficult to obtain those precious auxiliary training resources, and you still cannot become a warrior.
No one could really imagine that a lowly person like themselves would one day get such a fantastic opportunity!
Today, the entire Lingshan Island is filled with people whose faces are flushed with excitement.
In addition to working hard to practice the Tiger Roar Fist they had just learned, they spent their free time every day exchanging basic martial arts knowledge with each other.
The lower the level of the common people, the more they cherish the opportunity to change their own destiny.
Li Dingguo's prestige skyrocketed in just a few days and had reached its peak.
As long as he gives the order, all the people on this Lingshan Island will draw their swords and fight for him to the death without any hesitation!
From ancient times to the present, all things related to martial arts training have been monopolized by the imperial court, officials, noble families, and wealthy families. They would never be open to them, the untouchables, let alone popularize them.
What Li Dingguo is doing now can be said to be the first time in history.
This is truly a historical first, without any compromise.
Of course, Li Dingguo dared to do this because he had a large amount of cultivation resources in his hands.
No human force in this world would squander such vast amounts of precious cultivation resources as recklessly as he does.
Li Dingguo had to do this in order to build a new revival army in the shortest possible time and have the strength to gain a foothold in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for this newly established navy to grow and become stronger from scratch.
(End of this chapter)
